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TAXI DRIVER
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Columbia, 1976
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie
Foster
| | DIRECTOR |
Martin Scorsese
| | PRODUCER |
Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
| | SCREENWRITER |
Paul Schrader
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De Niro is Travis Bickle, a New York City cab driver
whose rage builds in a lonely, dark world, until his
attempt to befriend and free Foster's 12-year-old prostitute
from her pimp culminates in a violent shoot-out. "You
talkin' to me?"
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
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Paramount, 1956
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
| | DIRECTOR |
Cecil B. De Mille
| | PRODUCER |
Cecil B. De Mille
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse Lasky, Jr., Jack
Gariss,
Fredric M. Frank
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Heston portrays Moses, who receives the Ten Commandments
and leads his people from Egypt to the promised land.
The spectacular parting of the Red Sea remains a favorite.
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TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
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Tri-Star, 1991
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton,
Edward Furlong
| | DIRECTOR |
James Cameron
| | PRODUCER |
James Cameron
| | SCREENWRITERS |
James Cameron, William Wisher
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Schwarzenegger is an automaton "cyborg" sent
from the future to protect the would-be savior of mankind,
who is still a boy. A more advanced cyborg, most often
in the form of a police officer, has been sent to destroy
them both. The film's special effects highlight this
rollercoaster of an action film. "Hasta la vista,
baby."
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TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
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Paramount, 1983
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
| | DIRECTOR |
James L. Brooks
| | PRODUCER |
James L. Brooks
| | SCREENWRITER |
James L. Brooks
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MacLaine is Aurora Greenway, an overbearing mother to
Winger's rebellious and free-spirited daughter. Over
a period of thirty years, their relationship is tested
by Aurora's smothering advice about marriage, children
and other life choices. Ultimately, they find their
closest bond when Winger contracts a terminal illness.
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THELMA & LOUISE
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MGM/UA, 1991
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon
| | DIRECTOR |
Ridley Scott
| | PRODUCER |
Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk
| | SCREENWRITER |
Callie Khouri
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Sarandon and Davis are friends who leave their troubled
pasts behind and take to the road for a weekend getaway.
After one of them shoots a man who tried to rape the
other, they disappear into the landscape of the American
West and try to stay one step ahead of the law.
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THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
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United Artists, 1924
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Douglas Fairbanks
| | DIRECTOR |
Raoul Walsh
| | PRODUCER |
Douglas Fairbanks
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Elton Thomas, Lotta Woods
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Fairbanks' energetic performance and a brilliant two-strip
Technicolor special effects process, including a magic
carpet ride, made this Arabian Nights spectacle
a popular success.
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THE THIN MAN
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M-G-M, 1934
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
William Powell, Myrna Loy
| | DIRECTOR |
W.S. Van Dyke
| | PRODUCER |
Hunt Stromberg
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
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The first film to feature stylish detective Nick Charles,
his wife Nora and their beloved wire-haired terrier
"Asta," launched the popular Thin Man series
and ushered in a new era of sophisticated comedies.
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THE THIRD MAN
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British Lion, 1949
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Aida Valli
| | DIRECTOR |
Carol Reed
| | PRODUCERS |
Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, David O. Selznick
| | SCREENWRITER |
Graham Greene
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Zither music, a giant ferris wheel and a spectacular
late-in-the film appearance
by Welles as the mysterious "Harry Lime" highlight
this tale of intrigue in post-World War II Vienna.
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THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO
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M-G-M, 1944
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson
| | DIRECTOR |
Mervyn LeRoy
| | PRODUCER |
Sam Zimbalist
| | SCREENWRITER |
Dalton Trumbo
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Tracy is General Jimmy Doolittle, the leader of the
first World War II American bombing raid on Japan,
but has only a small role in this action story about
a crew headed by pilot Johnson, who crash lands on
the China coast.
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE
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United Artists, 1942
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
| | DIRECTOR |
Ernst Lubitsch
| | PRODUCER |
Ernst Lubitsch
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Melchior Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer
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Benny plays the role of a ham actor who is the head
of a Polish acting troupe that hoodwinks the Nazis
in this black comedy. This was Lombard's last film.
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TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
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Warner Bros., 1944
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter
Brennan
| | DIRECTOR |
Howard Hawks
| | PRODUCER |
Howard Hawks
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Jules Furthman, William Faulkner
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In their first film together, Bacall instructs Bogart
on how to whistle in this Ernest Hemingway-based story
of intrigue on the island of Martinique.
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
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Universal, 1962
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
| | DIRECTOR |
Robert Mulligan
| | PRODUCER |
Alan J. Pakula
| | SCREENWRITER |
Horton Foote
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Peck's Atticus Finch is a widowed Southern lawyer defending
a black man accused of raping a white woman. At home,
he raises his daughter, Scout, and his son, Jem, and
teaches them about compassion and the evils of prejudice.
Foote's screenplay is based on Harper Lee's novel.
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TOM JONES
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United Artists, 1963
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Albert Finney, Susannah York, Joyce Redman,
Diane Cilento
| | DIRECTOR |
Tony Richardson
| | PRODUCER |
Tony Richardson
| | SCREENWRITER |
John Osborne
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Finney is the title character in this bawdy Henry Fielding
tale of the adventures of a young man seeking fortune
and love in 18th-century England.
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TOOTSIE
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Columbia, 1982
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
| | DIRECTOR |
Sydney Pollack
| | PRODUCERS |
Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Larry Gelbart, Don McGuire, Murray Schisgal
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Hoffman stars in this comedy about a temperamental out-of-work
actor who puts on a dress and lands the role of a lifetime
in a TV soap opera. Love interest Lange and her lonely
father make situations even more complicated in this
gender-bending love story.
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TOP HAT
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RKO, 1935
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
| | DIRECTOR |
Mark Sandrich
| | PRODUCER |
Pandro S. Berman
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott
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The team of Rogers and Astaire romantically dance their
way through Irving Berlin songs such as "Cheek
To Cheek" and "Isn't This a Lovely Day To
Be Caught in the Rain?" Astaire's "Top Hat"
number is one of the most famous ever filmed.
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TOUCH OF EVIL
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Universal, 1958
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
| | DIRECTOR |
Orson Welles
| | PRODUCER |
Albert Zugsmith
| | SCREENWRITER |
Orson Welles
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Heston is a Mexican narcotics agent and Welles is the
corrupt American police official who are at odds when
a murder takes place in a border town. More than a
"touch" of evil is uncovered in this tightly
directed and brilliantly scripted film.
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TOY STORY
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Disney, 1995
| | DIRECTOR |
John Lasseter
| | PRODUCERS |
Ralph J. Guggenhein, Bonnie Arnold
| | SCREENWRITERS |
John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Peter Docter,
Joe Ranft,
Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
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Groundbreaking computer animation creates the world
of Woody, a toy cowboy, who is replaced as the favorite
toy by higher-tech, but doltish Buzz Lightyear. "To
infinity and beyond!"
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THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
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Warner Bros., 1948
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
| | DIRECTOR |
John Huston
| | PRODUCER |
Henry Blanke
| | SCREENWRITER |
John Huston
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A scraggly Bogart leads a trio of gold prospectors destroyed
by greed in this taut psychological drama. John Huston
directed his father in a stellar performance.
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE
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Paramount, 1932
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
| | DIRECTOR |
Ernst Lubitsch
| | PRODUCER |
Ernst Lubitsch
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones
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This sophisticated comedy exemplifies the famous "Lubitsch
touch" as two jewel thieves' relationship is threatened
when one is tempted by a beautiful, wealthy woman.
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12 ANGRY MEN
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United Artists, 1957
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
| | DIRECTOR |
Sidney Lumet
| | PRODUCER |
Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose
| | SCREENWRITER |
Reginald Rose
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Set entirely in a jury room, the film shows how a lone
holdout, Fonda, methodically faces class and racial
prejudices to convince the eleven other jurors to change
their verdict from guilty to not guilty, thus enabling
an innocent young man to go free.
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TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH
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Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Gregory Peck, Dean Jagger
| | DIRECTOR |
Henry King
| | PRODUCER |
Darryl F. Zanuck
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Sy Bartlett, Beirne Lay, Jr.
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This was one of a new breed of post-World War II films
displaying a different
perspective. Peck is the tough, stoic "Savage,"
commander of a U.S. air base in Britain, who must keep
his pilots inspired by enforcing strict military discipline.
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20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
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Disney, 1954
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Kirk Douglas, James Mason
| | DIRECTOR |
Richard Fleischer
| | PRODUCER |
Walt Disney
| | SCREENWRITER |
Earl Felton
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Mason is the suave, yet malevolent Captain Nemo, whose
futuristic submarine offers a comfortable prison for
three 19th-century men shipwrecked while investigating
an attack by a mysterious sea monster. Douglas' fight
with a giant squid is still memorable.
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TWO FOR THE ROAD
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Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Albert Finney, Audrey Hepburn
| | DIRECTOR |
Stanley Donen
| | PRODUCER |
Stanley Donen
| | SCREENWRITER |
Frederic Raphael
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Finney and Hepburn are partners in a declining marriage
of twelve years. Their relationship unfolds through
a series of flashbacks to several road trips through
the South of France.
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
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M-G-M, 1968
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
| | DIRECTOR |
Stanley Kubrick
| | PRODUCER |
Stanley Kubrick
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
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Kubrick's science fiction epic puts mankind in context
between ape and space voyager. The film created a stir
for its special effects, the computer HAL, and the
debate about the meaning of the film's final sequence.
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